The War Criminal Rises and Speaks chords by
Okkervil River

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Key: A minor•

Verse 1

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The heart

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wants to feel.

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The heart wants to hold.

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The heart takes past Sub way,

Past Stop and Shop,

Past Beal's,

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And calls it "coming home."

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The heart wants a trail

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Away from "alone,"

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So the heart turns a sale

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Into a well-worn milestone

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milestone

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Towards hard-won soft soft furniture,

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Fought-for fast fast food,

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Defended end table that

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Holds paperbacks and back U.S. News.

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The mind turns an itch

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Into a bruise,

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And the hands start to twitch

Verse 2

When they're feeling ill-used.

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And And you're almost back now,

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You can see by the signs;

From the bank you tell the

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tem perature

And then the time,

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And the billboard reads some headlines.

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The head wants to turn,

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To avert both its eyes,

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But the mind wants to learn

Of some truth that might be

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Inside reported crimes.

Verse 3

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So they found a lieutenant

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Who killed a village of kids.

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After finishing off the wives,

He wiped off his knife

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And that's what he did.

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And they're not claiming that

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There's any excusing it;

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That was thirty years back,

And they just get paid for the facts

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The way they got them in.

Verse 4

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Now he's rising and not denying.

His hands are shaking,

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but he's not crying.

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And he's saying "How did I climb

Out of a life so boring in

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to that moment?

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Please stop ignoring the heart inside,

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Oh you readers at home!

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While you gasp at my bloody crimes,

Please take the time

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To make your heart my home:

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Where I'm forgiven by time,

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Where I'm cushioned by hope,

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Where I'm numbed by long drives,

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Where I'm talked off or doped.

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Does the heart wants to atone?

Verse 5

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Oh, I believe that it's so,

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Because if I could climb back through time,

I'd restore their lives and then

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give back my own:

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Tens of times now it s size

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On a far distant road

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In a far distant time

Where every night I'm still crying,

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En tirely alone."

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But the news today always fades away as you drive

Verse 6

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by,

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Until at dinnertime when you

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look into her eyes,

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Lit by evening sun - that, as usual,

comes

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From above that straight, unbroken line,

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The horizon

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Its rising

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Is a given,

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Just like your living.

Verse 7

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Your heart's warm and kind.

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Your mind is your own.

Our blood-spattered criminal

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criminal

Is inscrutable;

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Don't worry, he won't

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Rise up behind your eyes

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And take wild control.

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He's not of this time,

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He fell out of a hole.

Outro 1

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